Yes Hillcrest I with you on that... Ill be really intersted to find out if my thyroid is working again... when i get my next thyroid blood test.. Thanks for your input.... Do you have a thyroid problem?

Im receiving a newsletter on Thyroid probs and so would just add some interesting info -- The Dr says that the hormone replacement medicine is best taken on an empty stomach - it does not mix well with food. Also soy products interfere with its potency - strangely IODINE also... He advises checking to see if it is a lack of Iodine that is actually causing your problem -- it might not be...It is becoming clearer that it is a delicate balancing act -

Just read something that gives me hope - I have been getting a newsletter regularly re thyroid disfunction and this morning read that the thyroid can start functioning again - on its own -important to keep getting that T4 monitored-regular checkups and if the symptoms return then medications would be necessary. Too much medication causes heart palpitations,difficulty sleeping,anxiety etc...and we all know what a low functioning thyroid produces in the body .. weight gain, tiredness, memory loss,in the later stages - ankle swelling, hair falling out,welts under the eyes, hardening in certain areas of the body (with me it was the feet)I was told that I was in the very last stages of the hyperthyroidism and it can lead to heart failure and dementia. Lucky I went to another Dr - when my cholesterol shot up to 12. He gave me different blood tests and discovered the thyroid thing... Probably we do know our own bodies best.. listen to your intuition...

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I have researched this for months. All I found was Australia Sheep, and that can get confiscated on the way in.I read ONE story of a doc treating a woman with Too Much thyroid- her hubby was raising and butchering own chickens and he accidentally ground up the glands with other meat.That's my kind of accident, lol. My neighbors raise a LOT of chickens, heck, we even have chicken thieves in our town ! Not me, of course. I do love ground chicken burgers tho...

Black and red radishes have been used by some doctors in the old Soviet Union as accepted medical treatment for hypothyroidism. Raphanin, the main sulphur component in radishes, is chiefly responsible for keeping the production of thyroxine and calcitonin (a peptide hormone) in normal balance.

'scripts are targeted medication. This means they do not, as a rule, cure penile disfunction while giving you brain cancer and causing you to grow hair on the bottom of your phukking feet. If you think beet juice will fix your broken hip you're in for a lot of pain and will die from bone infection (a great way to go if you're really into pain).

Ha!Ha! Thanks for your opinion... Mildly funny!!If you had read all the thread you would have seen that people were advised to be carefu with self medicating... The beetroot juice for reducing high bood pressure was taken from the English medical journal -- well respected.. At any rate that could be easily tested --I am not going off my thyroxin but am waiting for results of recent blood test to see if T4 is O.K. --- Dont think anyone would rashly follow advice here - I give people more intelligence than that...But thanks for your input.........

About a year ago I saw a story on the news that linked people who have had a lot of x-rays of the head and neck were coming up with thyroid cancer a lot more often than other people. Also saw a documentary about thyroid cancer being rampant in the Ukraine as well due to Chernobyl.

Yes radiation even from computers will have serious effects on the thyroid...

talking with an old fiend last night -- she revealed that her thyroid gave out when she was 40 - she is now 84 and has been taking thyroid medicine for around 40 years .....i was blown away ... i told her about the thread and she told me not to try and sort it out myself -- too dangerous.... any comments.....

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1066514

It's all very complex, and treating yourself is probably dangerous.

I have Graves disease, hyperthyroid. Diagnosed in 2004, took propylthiuracil, gained weight (150 pounds)even though I barely ate, felt like hell. Also Inderal for heart palpitations. Blood tests every 3 months. No insurance.

I just couldn't do it anymore.

I quit all medications a year ago, last September 2009. I'm now down to 118 pounds. Still have heart palpitations, my hands shake after my 2nd cup of coffee.

My habits aggravate the condition. I smoke, drink coffee and pepsi, eat chocolate, beef, and a wide variety of junkfood.

No alcohol- I don't get a buzz and feel like crap. Can't keep down the opioid narcotics anymore either...wtf.

This thread is mostly centered on hypothyroidism, but I can take the advice here and do the opposite.

Too much medication causes heart palpitations,difficulty sleeping,anxiety etc...and we all know what a low functioning thyroid produces in the body .. weight gain, tiredness, memory loss, in the later stages - ankle swelling, hair falling out, welts under the eyes, hardening in certain areas of the body (with me it was the feet)I was told that I was in the very last stages of the hyperthyroidism and it can lead to heart failure and dementia.

Lucky I went to another Dr - when my cholesterol shot up to 12. He gave me different blood tests and discovered the thyroid thing... Probably we do know our own bodies best.. listen to your intuition...

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1079845

Sounds like they were over-medicating me for the hyperthyroid. They turned me hypo and wanted to kill my thyroid and keep me on thyroid replacement therapy for the rest of my life. If you don't have a functioning thyroid, and can't get your thyroid replacement medication, you are dead.

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No thanks.

Now I'm hyper again and feel better, but wonder if I'm killing myself.

Compound the quantity you are consuming daily in all products and hey, hey, hey.....

you have thyroid disease.

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1091677

If you research, you discover that soy has never been a major part of the oriental diet. They mainly prized it for its beneficial properties in regenerating the soil by fixing nitrogen and as green manure. Somewhere along the way, they discovered that fermented soy beans were edible. They developed soy sauce, miso, and tempeh, and eventually tofu from fermented soy. To this day, their diet includes, typically, no more than about an ounce of any one of these foods. The tofu you find in our grocery stores is not fermented. It is not safe for hypothyroids.

Or you can try Homeopathic Iodates and other thyroid related remedies like Thyrodium etc...

Quoting: Gazing @ Orion

NaturThroid is even better than Armour. Also porcine, compounded at pharmacy, but it's about $50 per mo.. I got off that to take a thyroid support supp that's only $20 per mo. Having my TSH and free T4 checked next month to validate its efficacy.

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I have Graves disease, hyperthyroid. Diagnosed in 2004, took propylthiuracil, gained weight (150 pounds) even though I barely ate, felt like hell. Also Inderal for heart palpitations. Blood tests every 3 months. No insurance.

Quoting: j. 1093449

Hi, ^ that was me. I just re-read my post, lol..

I didn't GAIN 150 pounds, that was what I weighed during the time I was medicated.

hO! hO! hO! --- JUST HAD MY DRS APPOINTMENT AND HE IS IMMEDIATELY TAKING ME OFF LIPITOL - have developed liver disorder...Have been taking this drug for a year... to lower cholesterol ( thyroid connection) and this is the outcome.... He has put me on 150 mgs of thyroxin and then I have to have another blood test in 6 weeks ..... See the Drs dont know what they are doing half the time....